The weight of the invitation felt good in Daniel's hand. He ran his thumb over the embossed lettering, and a soft sigh escaped his lips. Twenty years. It was a momentous occasion. A grin spread across his face.

He looked around his apartment, a space he’d carefully curated over the years. This would be a chance to share the life he had built. He couldn’t wait to be there.

He started to make a list of things he needed to do to prepare. He already knew what he was going to talk about. The event was going to be a blast. He let the optimism wash over him.

Emotion: pleased

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.62 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion pleased. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 pleased stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the pleased emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the pleased vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.728
la0.496
happy0.462
🤩0.433
🥳0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401